The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-12
THE STRIFE BETWEEN CAPITAL
AND LABOR.


Is frightened, paralyzed, as DER mine.
Wherefore does every workman at this hour
Rebel 'gainst him who personates the power
Of wealth combined; who grasps his hand with
guile,
Intending to outwit him all the while?
Tis Gold, or "Gould"-convert the term at will
With like result for from the fountain still
Flows bitter waters; tits easy to tell why,
The drinking stimulates great cutlery
For he but represents accumulated power,
Obtained by subtle means and every hour,
While men divided honest labor seek:
Unthinking acquiescence It's, which makes them
weak.
For how could fortunes vast of untold size,
From savings, such as ordinarily arise
Within a lifetime; else accumulate
Or make UP millionaires at such a rate
Increasing poverty with increased wealth,
Obtained by such mysterious stealth,
Excites at length the laborer's deadly ire,
And makes him threaten dynamite or fire.
Vast corporations pitted against flesh and blood
Soulless-seize sovereign power for their own good
Use Eminent Domain" for private ways and ends,
Regardless they to what 1t surely tends.
This done, the power is freely used,
| Advantage taken until naught's refused
Which greed desires for pressing want compels
The vendor to succumb Result, he sells
The State defed it feebly undertakes
To assert its rights with ostentation makes
"a show of fight" 'gsinst aggrandizng schemes,
Haunting the common mind with specious dreams
OF power reserved and latent force retained
By which her creatures" erst may be restrained
By threat of prosecution restraint,
To be imposed on popular complaint
But which is never done, or, if attempted,
Avoided is, or else is circumvented
By arts and tricks we'll known to Aldermen,
Who deftly use this threat, nine times in ten.
To make these agents willing to be seen,
That terms may be arranged behind the screen,
By which the peoples rights may be ignored
Aye, sacrificed to pile up private hoard.
When men combined for means of self-defense
In ancient times they used their common sense
The patrarchal plan secured their pressing needs
Protection it provided 'gainst avaricious greeds.
too,
Oft met check, were quickly made to rue
The day they attempt made to fringe on right,
Defended by the force OF conjoined might
In tribal bands each clan made common cause
With all who owned like lineage-laws
N Inv falt uhauf all
On him whose venture did not turn out WE'LL
" Each look out for HIMSELF is now the mode,
AS twas with those who pundered on the i" road "
Careless the crowd that it's Robbers" phrase
They use, and follow up by crooked ways.
Moneys the God that's worshipped every day,
That rules, controls, and governs every way:
And he who gold possesses does defy
The opposing will, which wants the reason why.
Deluded hoodwinked induced to believe
That something will be done that shall retrieve
The blunders of the past and make amends.
BY show of diligence; the honest man depends
On rights defended, liberties conserved;
Till all at once this faith becomes unnerVed
BY news that these have all been basely sold
Yet not to benefit the State-but self
Have these betrayed sacred trust for pelf;
For this, forsooth, they sought an honored place
Succeeding, they nfct on her disgrace.
By arts like these have corporations grown,
Till they assume to occupy the throne,
And usnrp sovereignty, which theory gives
In equal part to each voter who lives
And multitudes bow down and worship those
Rich by continuance in part disclose.
Admiring those who boast that they are bribed
While knowing we'll their rights are circumscribed
Fen now. Armed truce delays the strife
That's imminent; preventing sacrifice of life
BY methods foreign to the bent of mind,
For which free institutions were designed
And great the danger that the use of force,
To settle what should ever have its source
In reason. right and justice sure will tend.
To make men hostile to the bitter end
Is such an outcome proof of man s advance.
For sway unchecked of Capital shall men break
lance,
For right to work and honest wage to get
Shall Labor fight, where it should only sweat
Must men apologize for speaking plain,
When slavery, the old-time source of gain,
Is re-established; gilded now as " Wage"
Net Chattel" named, as in a former age?
Must blood be shed and moisten freedoms soil
For right to share the profits earned by toll
Workmen and bosses die, and by the score
In bloody conflict fall, each bathed in gore
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Must we then drink from Anarchy's dire cup
The deadly draught confusion offers men.
When arms asurp the place of tongue and pei?
No no the wit and sense of fn!l-grown men
Will find common ground of concord, when
The equal rights of capital and labor join,
To shape relation by the law divine
s. 7. BRANDE.